Thursday, December 1, 2011

Update: On June 6, 2016 The jury voted unanimously for the death penalty on 11 counts. Franklin is tentatively scheduled to be sentenced on August 10, 2016.

Update: On May 5, 2016, Franklin was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of Debra Jackson, 29, Henrietta Wright, 34, Barbara Ware, 23, Bernita Sparks, 26, Mary Lowe, 26, Lachrica Jefferson, 22, Alice Alexander, 18, Princess Berthomieux, 15, Valerie McCorvey, 35, and Janecia Peters, 25. Of the nine victims that were shot, the jury found true the special circumstance of using a firearm. Franklin was convicted of attempted murder of Enietra Washington, 30. Jurors found true the special circumstance of a willful, deliberate, premeditated act. Jurors also found true the special circumstance of multiple murders. Franklin is facing the death penalty. Jurors will return on May 12, 2016 for opening arguments in the guilt phase of the trial.

About The Defendant
Franklin is married with two children. In the 1980's, he was a sanitation worker for the City of Los Angeles and also worked as a mechanic for the LAPD. He was well known around his neighborhood. Franklin was a scrapper, collecting junk and selling it.

Franklin was linked to the murders through a familial DNA match. Franklin's son Christopher was convicted on a felony weapons charge. His DNA was entered into the CODIS system and compared with the DNA found on the victims. In April 2010, a potential familial match was discovered.

Charges: 10 counts of 187 felony murder; 1 count of attempted murder. Victim Thomas Steele is not included in the DA's charges. Media reports indicate law enforcement believes there are at least five other victims, not charged.

‡ One of the Grim Sleeper's suspected victims, though there is no DNA evidence to support this claim. Being the only suspected male victim, it is believed that Steele either knew about Grim Sleeper's history of murders, or that he was friends with one of the victims.‡‡ Enietra "Margette" was told to use her middle name as her last name for her protection, but has since come forward as Enietra Margette Washington. Attacked on November 19, 1988, she is the only known survivor.OTHER VICTIMS/CRIMES - PRESENTED IN PENALTY PHASE
1. 04/17/74 17 year old German woman kidnapped and raped in Stuttgart, Germany - Survived
2. 01/15/84 Sharon Dismuke - murdered
3. 10/18/88 Inez Warren - murdered
4. 12/28/00 Georgia Mae Thomas - murdered
5. 09/10/05 Rolenia Morris - disappeared, presumed deadWITNESSES WHO TESTIFIED IN PENALTY PHASE

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Lonnie Franklin Jr. turned 60 on Aug. 30. He was almost 58 when he was arrested in July of 2010. How is it that this case has taken two years so far and has still not gone to trial?

I believe that he is a pawn in the game. The LAPD needed to arrest someone and they found someone who fit the bill. The killer has pock marks on his face across both cheeks. Franklin's face does not have pock marks, he is too old, too short and was not "handsome" as described by Ms. Washington, the only known survivor who was shot and left for dead in Nov. 1988. She is also the one who has described her attacker as having pockmarks across both cheeks as seen in the composite drawings.

He's no angel, but he's not the killer yet he is being referred to as the killer everywhere before the trial has even begun.

LONNIE FRANKLIN IS NO PAWN, HE IS A COLD BLOODED KILLER. MRS WASHINGTON KNOWS WHO TRIED TO MURDER HER, EVEN 30 YEARS LATER I WOULD REMEMBER THE FACE OF THE MAN WHO TRIED TO KILL ME, WOULDNT YOU? THIS MAN MURDERED MY SISTER AND COUNTLESS OTHER WOMEN WHO WERE YOUNG ENOUGH TO TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND. IVE WAITED 28 YEARS TO SEE JUSTICE FOR MY SISTER SHARON DISMUKE....I WILL BE FRONT ROW CENTER WHEN THIS TRIAL STARTS TO SEE THIS SICK BASTARD GET WHAT HE DESERVES!!!!!!

T&T FRIENDS

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